In tandem with the GM releases of iOS 9, watchOS 2, and OS X El Capitan on Wednesday, Apple also issued the first-ever beta of iOS 9.1.

The code is listed as build 13B5110e, and available only to registered members of the Apple Developer Program. The company warns that once installed, a device can't be reverted to an earlier version of iOS.

So far the exact contents of the beta are unknown, beyond a new range of emojis spotted byThe Next Web. It will presumably address any outstanding bugs in the final version of 9.0, and as a major point release may also make various feature and interface tweaks.

Some of the new emojis include a crab, lion, taco, burrito, unicorn, racecar, and satellite, as well as medals and prayer beads.

Comments

How is it that in 2015 we still don't have emoticons by Apple that are animated? I was using Skype in 2009 and their emoticons made the conversation much more lively and fun because they moved. I doubt it would take up any battery life or processing power, what's the reason? Patented? I doubt it.

How is it that in 2015 we still don't have emoticons by Apple that are animated?

Much harder than you think. Emoticons are implemented as Unicode characters. The advantage is that they can be used anywhere, in messages, webpages, apps, etc. Animated emoticons would be the same as saying there's a need for animated letter "a" or Chinese character, because that's absurd, none of that has been implemented. The entire font and text display infrastructure would have to be modified, and because every single app uses text, there's a big chance you'll break stuff.